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What is the DSA?
DSA believes that the fight for democratic socialism is one and the same as the fight for radical democracy, which we understand as the freedom of all people to determine all aspects of their lives to the greatest extent possible. Our vision entails nothing less than the radical democratization of all areas of life, not least of which is the economy.
Under democratic socialism, this authoritarian system would be replaced with economic democracy. This simply means that democracy would be expanded beyond the election of political officials to include the democratic direction of all businesses by the workers who comprise them and by the communities in which they operate.
Economic democracy would be complemented in the political sphere by a new system that combines an overhauled form of representative democracy (our current system) with direct democracy, a system in which individuals participate directly in the making of political decisions that affect them.
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There is a lot of discussion regarding the rich stealing from the poor. I agree. There is little articulation of how this happens other than suppressed wages and shady tax cuts.
Has anyone inspected the monetary policy (since August 1971) and how that correlates to the wealthy getting more wealthy and the poor becoming poorer? Monetary policy is working under the surface and is contributing, or forcing, those with less to have even less.
The house is tilted, not just the board game.
Class struggle is fought on a vertical scale, it is we down here (the working class) against the upper classes and their government/state apparatus.
Someone said that Class unions is not only a tool for class struggle but also the best umbrella for identity politics*. Someone said General strike is the most intersectional action**. In this spirit, the following article has been written...
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-united-class-not-a-united-left/
*Identity politics is politics based on a particular identity, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social background, caste, and social class. (Wikipedia)
**Intersectionality is a sociological analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Examples of these factors include gender, caste, sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, disability, height, age, and weight. (Wikipedia)
Philip from my caucus, Reform & Revolution, wrote a short comment on the new situation for DSA and the left after the Trump assassination attempt, see
There's a Spanish translation of the comment on the Jacobin Latin America page, https://jacobinlat.com/2024/07/15/un-trump-fortalecido-debe-ser-combatido-con-politicas-independientes/
Some of the main takeaways:
I’m interested to see if there are any particularly powerful quotes or questions that you could add to a sticker to make conservatives/a political people consider different ideas. I know it’s ultimately ridiculous to think that a sticker would change anyone’s beliefs, but sometimes I just wanna throw a wrench in and see if anything happens. For example: “trump wants to terminate the constitution”